adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
delicious/tasty
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Thanks for dinner – the food was delicious.
tasty morsels
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birds searching for tasty morsels
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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They are best used for cocktail savouries, but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce.
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Oh, and the okonomiyaki is very tasty .
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Gordon thought the proposition sounded very tasty .
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Having enjoyed a very tasty breakfast, he feels good and returns to his room to collect his luggage.
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Struck as always by its resemblance to human brain. Very tasty as salad, lemon dressing.
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Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.
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I think it's a very tasty season!
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It transpired that Hush Puppies were cornmeal fritters, seasoned with eggs and beer, and very tasty .
■ NOUN
food
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It was all good wholesome tasty food in those days.
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Ceratopteris is tasty food for aquarium snails.
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She was chilly and irritable, liked tasty foods and vinegar, and had an aversion to fat, meat and milk.
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There is usually a desire for vinegar, pickles and tasty foods , and a dislike for fat, meat and milk.
morsel
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I asked Jon if the plants proved to be a tasty morsel for the Forest's ponies.
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Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.
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Then, she became Poppy and sought out new, tasty morsels .
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A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She makes really tasty dish with chicken and rice.
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These cookies are very tasty .
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These sausages are really tasty - where did you buy them?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After putting the dishes together, the editor has a full-course meal-a tasty one, if possible.
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Ceratopteris is tasty food for aquarium snails.
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Families can drop the custom of serving unappetizing desserts and start tasty new holiday traditions, Eisenberg suggests.
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Fruits ripened on the vine are tasty but soft and difficult to transport.
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She was chilly and irritable, liked tasty foods and vinegar, and had an aversion to fat, meat and milk.
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The breakfast is complete and tasty .